Dual boot - 2000 & ME

[Mikel]

Hello,

I have installed 2000 professional. And then I installed
Windows ME.

- Windows 2000 is NTFS on partion 1
- Windows ME is on Partition 2

They both work fine. I can run 2000 or ME by making that
partition active.

I'm not able to make it dual boot. I have tried the
following procedure to make it dual boot.. but no success.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?
scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q2
93/4/01.asp&NoWebContent=1

I also edited boot.ini by adding second line
under "operatiing systems":

partion(2)\=
also tried:


Anyone have a suggesion... or please copy boot.ini here of
a successful dual boot.

Thanks very much

 

[I'm Dan]

I have installed 2000 professional. And then I installed
Windows ME.

- Windows 2000 is NTFS on partion 1
- Windows ME is on Partition 2

They both work fine. I can run 2000 or ME by making
that partition active.

I'm not able to make it dual boot. I have tried the
following procedure to make it dual boot.. but no success.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?
scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q2
93/4/01.asp&NoWebContent=1

I also edited boot.ini by adding second line
under "operatiing systems":

partion(2)\=
also tried:

Anyone have a suggesion... or please copy boot.ini here
of a successful dual boot.

Forget about boot.ini, that will never work.

Multiboot methods fall into two general categories: the Microsoft way
and everyone else's way. The two methods use incompatible concepts and
cannot simply be substituted for one another. In a nutshell, the
Microsoft way intertwines the OS's by always booting through the same
partition and then forking to one or another operating system on
different drive letters (for example, you'll often hear people talk
about how one OS is on "C:" and the other is on "E:"), while the
third-party boot managers keep OS's totally independent and truly boot
separate partitions as alternate "C:" partitions. The MS way
intertwines the OS's and uses boot.ini to define the available OS's in
the boot menu. The third-party way does not intertwine OS's and uses a
separate boot manager, not the boot.ini file. You can't mix the methods
by installing your OS's without intertwining and try to control the
multiboot through boot.ini.

Since each of your OS's is already installed as a standalone OS, you
need to use a third-party boot manager. And of course, since MS has
their own method, they won't talk about third-party boot managers, so
you'll search in vain for help on the MS site. Instead, take a look at
XOSL (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl), GAG (www.sourceforge.net), or
BootIt NG (www.bootitng.com). The first two are freeware and are very
versatile. The third is shareware, but includes a partitioning utility
(ala, PartitionMagic) and an imaging utility (ala, DriveImage or Ghost).
If you don't already have partitioning and imaging software, you'll find
this very useful and the price is a bargain.